Dude's house is 130 ft away from cliff, after landslide

After spending £1.5million and waiting 18 months, Nick Skilton was weeks away from moving into his brand new luxury cliff-top home.

But his sea view will be somewhat closer than he expected – after 80ft of his garden and tons of earth and trees disappeared in a landslide, leaving the house only yards from a 130ft sheer drop.

The businessman says he is unconcerned about his home's apparently precarious new position. But pictures taken yesterday suggest he may be putting on a brave face as experts warned he is unlikely to be able to insure the four-bedroom home, which has a spiral glass staircase and indoor swimming pool. The 47-year-old millionaire would only say: "I am not a bit worried about my home. I'm not bothered." Mr Skilton, who made his fortune selling bathroom equipment, was not inside the building when the landslide struck. But it was an earth-shattering experience for carpenter Daniel Julyan and his joiner father Phillip.

Daniel, 19, of Newton Abbot, said: "Often we'll hear a rumbling when a train goes by. But this just kept going and got four or five times louder – it was like thunder.

"The next thing I knew, five trees at the end of the garden just toppled over. We looked over the edge and there was a mile of red dirt and branches and stuff floating in the ocean." Article here.